“He paid the victims compliments to gain their trust before asking them to send photos or take part in video chat which quickly became sexual in nature,” a police spokesman said.

“He became more persistent and once a victim refused to send any more, became aggressive and threatened to distribute the indecent images they had already sent to their friends and family unless they sent more.”

Towers, 24, of Portugal Road, Woking, pleaded guilty to 21 of charges of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity; engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child; and taking and distributing indecent photographs of a child when he appeared at court.

When police noticed the Saab car being driven erratically they tried to stop him before a police chase that became so dangerous, officers had to track him by helicopter.

Video footage showed the 22-year-old of Woodland Way in Failand speeding along Cheltenham Road - where he reached up to 70mph, around the St James Barton roundabout and driving on the wrong side of the road past Cabot Circus, where he reached up to 90mph.

Eventually a stinger device was deployed to deflate his tyres and he leapt from the vehicle. After being arrested he pretended to snore through a police interview, the court heard.

Watson, who was first banned from driving at the age of 14, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, while disqualified and without insurance.

The judge told him: “You treated the roads of this city as if they were yours and yours alone.

“For 24 minutes you had an utter, utter disregard for the safety of any other possible road user.”

Watson was banned from driving for five years and eight months and was ordered to pass an extended driving test.

Violent and dangerous

In a series of drunken attacks the 34-year-old injured Natalie Larcombe. In one struggle, he cut her leg with a knife and left a scar; a second saw him grabbing her throat until she became unconscious and another saw her punched in the face and dragged into the street by her hair.

The fourth saw him throw a jar of mustard at Ms Larcombe before striking her with a kitchen chair.

Edwards of Creswicke Avenue, Hanham, who pleaded guilty to four counts of battery, was told “You are plainly a violent man with a long-standing drug habit and drink habit and inability to control yourself.”

Jailed: Five months

Dog walker tried to rob couple

Marcus Dawes has been jailed after admitting a charge of attempted robbery (Image: Avon and Somerset police)

A dog walker who tried to rob a couple after one of them said “hello”.

Marcus Dawes was walking the pet when Megan James, 20, and Josh Crampton, 27, passed him on School Road in Totterdown.

It was also alleged that he stole an iPad from a friend and a laptop from a guest in the hotel where he was working.

Despite being arrested and charged with these initial offences, Clutterbuck went on to commit even more crimes while out on bail – breaking into a neighbour's flat and stealing an expensive digital camera and jewellery.

Jailed: One year

Driving while disqualified for the seventh time

Jetenderpal Singh has been jailed after driving while disqualified for the seventh time (Image: CPS)

Part of a drugs network

Police said Tumaini Matsimela had been working for a long time bringing Class A hard drugs from Bristol to market towns and had recruited a motley crew of local small-time drug users and dealers to distribute the drugs.

Officers caught him re-handed off the train and he was arrested, but the next day the 34-year-old from Wilson Street, St Paul’s went straight back to Wiltshire bring drugs from his Bristol home.

Holding pistol to man’s temple

They grappled with him, before they discovered what turned out to be a BB gun causing him to let go of the imitation weapon.

The 44-year-old, of Broad Street in Chipping Sodbury, pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear after pleading with the men to let him go because it was “Christmas” during the incident last December.

Jailed: Ten months

Sex with a dog

The judge said Mark Hook part of a network that processed, shared and facilitated the making of these images

The 38-year-old also performed oral sex on the pet and downloaded some of the most extreme kinds of child and animal porn before acting out his sick fantasies with the dog on a farm in Somerset.

He shared the vile images with online perverts using the nickname DirtyBristolBoi.

The judge said Hook had been viewing “the worst kinds of sexual acts imaginable against a human being” involving children and 797 “extreme pornographic images” depicting men and women having oral and anal sex with dogs, horses and cows.

Rapist

Liam Palmer has been jailed for six years after he was found guilty of raping a woman in her own bed after a party (Image: Avon and Somerset police)

A man who raped a woman in her own bed after she invited him to a house party was told by a judge: “Just because a woman has been friendly towards you and has drunk some alcohol does not mean she wants to have sex with you.”

Liam Palmer, 26, of the Jamacia Street Hostel went back to her home for a party before the woman and her female friend fell asleep.